“Marco has had loans before, he has trained with the first team at certain times before but certainly since he has came back he has been training with us to get the match fitness up before he goes out in January.”

Van Ginkel has only played 11 Premier League minutes for Chelsea, and has already been out of loan three times since moving to Stamford Bridge from Vitesse Arnhem for £8million in July 2013.

He started 16 Serie A matches at AC Milan two seasons ago and eight in the Premier League at Stoke before his season-long loan was cut short on transfer deadline day last February.

That paved the way for a move to PSV where Van Ginkel enjoyed a prolific end to the season as he notched eight times in 13 games.